Glow Effect For Dota Items

hamstocks

Hello Polycount! A friend and i are working on some Dota 2 items, and would love to have some glowing parts on some of them. However, we're not really sure how to accomplish this. Any help or input would be great. Thanks!

Deadly Nightshade

Emissive maps (also known as self-illumination)

Ace-Angel

Read the Valve-Dota2 documents, they show you were the illumination mask goes.

hamstocks

Alright, thanks for the quick responses guys! looking at the shader/masks docs right now!

Ace-Angel

If you still have issues on how create Masks, just ask here, but generally, Valve did an excellent job at documenting where goes what in the textures and how.

If you want to use an example shader to test the model and the textures before plonking it into the engine, just download the shader here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110022

hamstocks

That shader is great, for 3DS and Maya... i use Blender. Oh well, at least i know how to do it now

CrucifiX

Well, thanks for that Ace, at least I can use it Thanks for all the replies guys!

Oh damn, no love for Max 2014. When will the world move on? Quite hard to get anything compatible with it..

Michael Knubben

crucific: quite likely the world will move on when Autodesk stops breaking 3rd-party shader support